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Around 4 years ago, I was a camp counselor at a sleepaway camp. I was one of the counselors for the 6-8 year olds. If these kids loved doing anything they loved pranking the girls their age at the camp.

One of these pranks that they came up with was to hide the girls’ spirit flag. These were a big deal, they kept track of each cabin’s accomplishments. The only caveat was that, in order to do this, we had to do this at night in order for it not to interfere with the kid’s activity schedules.

The camp is on 200 acres of land. Part of it overlaps with an old family cemetery that technically the camp doesn’t own. One of my kids suggested that we hide the girl’s spirit flag at the cemetery. I was down, my co-counselor Joe was down for it.

We all had headlamps or flashlights, so we weren’t too worried. Joe walked in the front of the kids, and I walked in the back to make sure they were always accounted for. The cemetery was only about a 10 minute walk from our cabin into the woods, so this should have been an easy fun prank for all of us.

We arrived at the cemetery, put the girls flag by a tombstone and all were having a good chuckle. Joe then says:

“Um, Chandler (me) what is that?”

I turn my head to where Joe is shining his headlamp and I saw two glowing, eerie, green eyes. This is backwoods Alabama. The nearest police station was 30 minutes away, and the nearest hospital was an hour away. If anything were to happen, it would be too late to call for help.

I thought I was dreaming so I blinked a few times and it was still there. Here’s the thing, Joe’s headlamp was shining directly where the eyes were, but we saw no animal, creature, or humanoid at all. Both of us both turned our lights off and the eyes were there for 5 more seconds before they finally dissapeared.

The kids this entire time were still all laughing and making jokes about the girls cabins, and thankfully were all still there. We raced out of there as fast as we could and didn’t tell the children what happened.

That was one of longest nights I’ve had. I was restless, and Joe was as well, so we spoke about it on the cabin porch. We knew what we saw, and when we tried to tell the rest of the camp staff, they all laughed.

Except for Adam. Adam told us that two weeks ago his cabin did a similar prank like us, and they went back early because of the “Green eyes”.

It’s funny, Joe got married about a week ago. I congratulated him over text, and immediately followed up with a message that said:

“We did see those eyes at camp that one time, right? It wasn’t a dream?”

He confirmed that is wasn’t.

I actually just had a nightmare about this story, which is I’m awake this late, and of course this AskReddit appears.

I suppose this is what I get for agreeing to do a prank on someone’s grave.

Yes, I remember being able to see an iris and a faint pupil. It wasn’t just light. This is what made me even more freaked out. I’ve seen deer, mountain lions, coyotes, etc. in the woods, and it wasn’t that.